Accessing a 2nd hard drive

[Tony Dietrich]

On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 00:27, Carl Lucas wrote:
> What I have done was a clean install of Fedora Core 3. I have an 80 gig
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> Output of mount:
> [root at localhost carl]# mount
*********************************************************************
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
*********************************************************************
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> /dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/hda2 on /home/carl/windows type ntfs (ro,umask=0222)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
>
> How do I access the 2nd hard drive?
>
> I have tried creating a mount point but it says the drive is already
> mounted. The output of "mount" doesn't have anything about LogVol01.
>
> Shouldn't I be able to, for example, create a folder on the 2nd hard
> drive and save my digital photos there? In other words, shouldn;t I be
> able to access the 2nd drive. Or is it set up to be "one big hard drive"?

It IS mounted, see ***** above.

You've installed your / onto the Logical Volume on the 2nd hard disk.

The /dev/mapper entries control the LV on the second hd.

TD